What is the History of the Book?

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• Professor James Raven (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Bibliographical History, University of Essex; Fellow of Magdalene College and Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust, Cambridge)
• Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Rachel E. Holmes.

In recent years ‘book history’ or ‘the history of the book’ has attracted increasing academic interest as a subdiscipline in the humanities. I have been involved in this development since the 1980s and in very diverse ways. Recently I’ve been trying to think about broader, comparative and global perspectives that consider the interaction between traditional bibliography and new book histories and that might intersect to an even greater extent with other disciplinary interests. This talk will want explore some of these ideas.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.

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